The Miami-Dade Police handbook presumably does not authorize random joyrides to commit revenge beatings. In fact, that’s an idea so boneheaded it sounds like a technique Tammany Hall cops used during the 1863 New York City draft riots.
For two days, she holed up in her stateroom and hoped it wasn’t real. Stuck on the luxury yacht with her rapist, the woman — a passenger traveling on an upscale European cruise — says she spent the days after the attack trying to process what had happened.
Recent reports suggest U.S. Customs and Border Protection is giddy about Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency. Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Department of Homeland Security agents have been ready to “take the shackles off” for years and feel “a new freedom to deport” under Trump.
Last summer, the Miami Gardens Police Department held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new “Real Time Crime Center” — a command-center-like room equipped with video walls and laptops where detectives monitor what’s happening around town. The city pitches the center as a boon for a high-crime corner of Miami-Dade, but the heavy surveillance also makes civil rights activists uncomfortable in a city already rattled by one major police harassment scandal.
Solutions to Miami’s slow-simmering Zika virus crisis have included the following: fumigating the city with possibly dangerous pesticides; releasing bats into the sky, Hunter S. Thompson-style; desperately avoiding Zika “hot zones”; and genetically modifying the Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito so they all die.
In addition to being a charlatan, power-grabber, and unbridled coward, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is also just really, really bad at lying. He doesn’t lie like Donald Trump, who vomits falsehoods so outlandish that they take four full news-cycle days to rebut. He also doesn’t lie like, say, most mainstream Democrats, who promise people things such as universal health care or student-loan forgiveness every four years while blatantly knowing they won’t accomplish any of those things while in office.
The Muslim son of America’s most famous boxer says he was stopped at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, questioned twice about his religion, and then held for at about two hours this past February 7.
Dear Stoner: How does a percolator work in a bong? Huff. Dear Huff: Percolators, vaporizers, blasting hash — they all require scientific processes that most of us don’t want to learn, despite how important they are to cannabis consumption. Percolators use water to filter compounds and mixtures; they were around…
Here’s a tough question: Who’s the most recognizable face of South Florida sports today? For decades, that was an easy answer. First, it was Dan Marino. Then, even through the LeBron era, it was Dwyane Wade. These days, however, there’s no clear choice for the big dog of South Florida sports.
Last week, as Miami-Dade commissioners voted 9-3 to comply with President Donald Trump’s harsh new immigration policies, dozens of residents stormed out of County Hall, shouting, “Shame on you!” The pleas of mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons who had asked commissioners to reconsider seemingly weren’t enough. Commissioner Rebeca Sosa went as far as to say those emotional appeals for empathy were irrelevant.
Sen. Marco Rubio did not show up to a citizen-initiated town-hall meeting held in South Miami-Dade County last night. He was replaced by something that many of his constituents believe might be more useful: an empty suit that said and did nothing all night.
Marco Rubio spent the first half of the week in Europe on some sort of mystery tour through Germany and/or France. Details of that trip are remarkably scarce — but in that time, the U.S. senator from Florida used the journey as an excuse to skip out on a citizen-organized town-hall meeting in Tampa.
In November, Floridians overwhelmingly voted to legalize medical marijuana. Seventy-one percent of voters backed Amendment 2, requiring the Legislature to make rules by July 3. By September, medical pot is supposed to be available statewide.
There are lots of reasons to tread carefully when finding a roommate in Miami. If you’re not in a relationship, your choices basically boil down to a high-school friend you will grow to hate, a co-worker you already see way too much of, some predatory old dude essentially looking for a live-in college-aged prostitute, or an uptight neat freak who will flip out if you don’t use a coaster on her very expensive West Elm coffee table. Worst case, you end up with a creepy rando from Craigslist who actually tries to murder you.
Marco Rubio has been in Europe all week. Why? No one really knows! Members of Rubio’s staff told the Tampa Bay Times yesterday that the U.S. senator from Florida is meeting with representatives from Germany and France this week to discuss alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. But Rubio’s office declined to say the cities he’s visiting or even the countries in which the meetings are taking place.
The State of Florida is effectively run by shills for the oil, gas, and energy industries. Floridians know what that means: Every time well-meaning citizens or politicians try to lobby the state to pass energy or environmental regulations, the leather utility company boot stomps on Tallahassee’s neck. It’s not fun.
On Instagram, Richard Rodriguez comes across as a high-living gym fanatic, posing with top bodybuilding athletes and posting photos of luxury sports cars and his extreme adventures, such as skydiving and firing high-powered weapons. As owner of the popular Iron Addicts gym just north of downtown Miami, he had recently become a…
Miami Beach will soon chop down an estimated 815 trees in North Shore Open Space Park. On its face, this is very bad news: The park is the only public beachfront green space on the whole barrier island. Hundreds of residents have signed petitions urging the city to stop the plan.
Rebecca, a rookie actress, stood in front of a full-length mirror in the living room of her middle-aged director’s Miami Beach apartment. Osvaldo Strongoli hovered behind her, his eyes on her reflection. “Take your shirt off,” he commanded. She hesitated: Strongoli had already made her uncomfortable by using a brief…
The federal government is run by a despotic regime that dictates laws and hands down rulings wholly incongruous with the vision laid out by America’s Founding Fathers, say two Florida lawmakers. According to state Sen. Keith Perry — a Republican who represents Alachua, Putnam, and portions of Marion Counties — and Rep. Julio Gonzalez, a Venice Republican, the regime now running the United States constitutes an oligarchy of wealthy elites that “must be dismantled for the sake of our republic and for the continued empowerment of its people.”
On a cold February day in 2013, Warren Papove deplaned in Vancouver with 65 cents to his name. After living in South Miami for ten years without committing a crime, Papove — a homeless handyman who did odd jobs for Commissioner Bob Welsh — had been reported to immigration officials and rounded up by ICE. Six months into his lockup at the Krome Detention Center, Papove was deported to his native Canada in the middle of winter without so much as a jacket to keep himself warm.
This past Friday, Miami-Dade commissioners spent hours blathering about how their vote to comply with President Trump’s ban on “sanctuary” communities was purely financial. Trump has threatened to pull funding for communities that refuse to hold suspects wanted on federal immigrant requests. That’s why they voted 9-3 Friday to comply, they said, despite hours of emotional testimony from worried residents.
